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"Wonderful World"
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Ane of side-A labels of the 1960 US single
Single by Sam Cooke
from the anthology The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke
B-side "Along the Navajo Trail"
Released April 14, 1960 (1960-04-xiv)
Recorded March 2, 1959
Studio Radio Recorders, Los Angeles
Genre Rhythm and blues, soul
Length 2:09
Label Bang-up, A&M, Dunhill
Songwriter(s) Lou Adler, Herb Alpert, Sam Cooke
Producer(s) Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke singles chronology
"Y'all Understand Me"
(1960) 		"Wonderful World"
(1960) 		"With You"
(1960)
Music video
"What A Wonderful World" (lyric video) on YouTube

"Wonderful World" (occasionally referred to equally "(What A) Wonderful Globe") is a vocal by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Released on Apr xiv, 1960, by Keen Records, it had been recorded during an impromptu session the previous year in March 1959, at Sam Cooke's last recording session at Not bad. He signed with RCA Victor in 1960 and "Wonderful Earth," so unreleased, was issued as a unmarried in competition. The vocal was mainly composed by songwriting team Lou Adler and Herb Alpert, but Cooke revised the lyrics to mention the subject of education more.

"Wonderful World" ended up doing essentially better on the charts than several of his early on RCA singles, condign his biggest hit single since "Y'all Send Me" (1957). The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 2 on Billboard 's Hot R&B Sides chart.

Herman's Hermits charted with their recording of the song in 1965, reaching number four in the United States and number vii in the U.k., respectively. A remake by Art Garfunkel with James Taylor and Paul Simon charted at number 17 in 1978. The Sam Cooke version was featured in the 1978 flick Animate being House and gained greater recognition in the Britain upon a 1986 re-release when it peaked at number two on the U.k. Singles Nautical chart, going silver (it had peaked at number 27 on the UK singles chart on offset release in 1960). Its 1986 success was attributed to sound-alike versions featured in the picture show Witness (1985) and a Levi's 501 tv commercial.

Background [edit]

Lou Adler and Herb Alpert composed the song with the theme that neither knowledge nor education can dictate feelings, but that beloved "could brand the world a wonderful place."[1] Adler did not accept the vocal very seriously but Cooke appeared to be taken with it. "He'd say, 'What about that vocal, you know?' So he'd kickoff on it again," recalled Adler.[1] Cooke wanted to steer the song toward the subject of schooling, revised the song and decided to cutting information technology at a recording session on March 2, 1959, v days after completing his Billie Holiday tribute album, Tribute to the Lady.[1] The threesome'due south writing credit for the song was given to the pseudonymous "Barbara Campbell." Campbell was besides listed on the tape labels for 2 other Cooke hits: "Only Sixteen" and "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha."

The session's principal goal was to record iii songs Cooke had composed. In that location was no arranger or orchestra and the personnel consisted of Cooke, guitarist Cliff White, bassist Adolphus Alsbrook, teenage drummer Ronnie Selico and a quartet of singers that Cooke biographer Peter Guralnick believes may have been the Pilgrim Travelers – J.W. Alexander, Lou Rawls, and George McCurn (nicknamed Oopie).[one]

There is no known footage of Cooke performing the song, even though, in 1986, ABKCO president Allen Klein offered a $10,000 advantage for anyone obtaining such footage.[2]

Release and reception [edit]

Cooke signed to RCA Victor in 1960 but his showtime 2 singles on the major characterization – "Teenage Sonata" and "You Understand Me" – failed to register on the charts.[three] Meanwhile, John Siamas, co-founder of Keen Records, discovered the "demo" recording of "Wonderful World" among unreleased Cooke recordings.[3] Keen released "Wonderful World" in competition with RCA's issue of "Yous Understand Me" in the aforementioned week.[3] "Wonderful World" chop-chop became Cooke's all-time-performing unmarried since his showtime hitting "Y'all Send Me," reaching number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart.[3] Billboard reviewed the single upon its release, giving it four stars and writing, "Moderate rocker gets a smooth chugalug from Sam Cooke in his usual, salable style."[4]

In 2004, the song was placed 373rd in Rolling Rock magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Later versions [edit]

"Wonderful World"
Single past Herman'south Hermits
B-side
  • "I Gotta Dream On" (Great britain)
  • "Traveling Light" (U.s.)
Released April xvi, 1965 (1965-04-16) (UK)
May 1965 (US)
Recorded March 1965
Studio De Lane Lea, London
Genre Beat
Length one:57
Label MGM
Songwriter(due south) Sam Cooke, Lou Adler, Herb Alpert
Producer(southward) Mickie Virtually
Herman's Hermits singles chronology
"Mrs. Dark-brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
(1965) 		"Wonderful World"
(1965) 		"Merely a Little Chip Ameliorate"
(1965)
"(What A) Wonderful Earth"
(What A) Wonderful World - Art Garfunkel.jpg
Single by Art Garfunkel
from the anthology Watermark
B-side "Wooden Planes"
Released January 1978 (1978-01)
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Sam Cooke, Lou Adler, Herb Alpert
Art Garfunkel singles chronology
"Break Away"
(1975) 		"(What A) Wonderful World"
(1978) 		"Since I Don't Have You"
(1978)
  • Herman's Hermits had a major striking in the mid-1960s with an uptempo version of the song (omitting one verse) which reached number iv in the U.s. and number vii in the UK. The Hermits' version was, co-ordinate to singer Peter Noone and guitarist Keith Hopwood, done as a tribute to Cooke upon his death. In an interview with Hugh Brown prior to a 2020 concert in Edinburgh, Noone recalled that Jimmy Page, after founder of Led Zeppelin, played guitar on the track and was paid £12.[5] Cash Box described it as having "an infectious, rhythmic blues-tinged warm-hearted style."[6]
  • Otis Redding recorded a version of the song on his 1965 album Otis Blue.
  • Johnny Nash recorded a version for his eponymous 1977 album What a Wonderful World.
  • In 1978, Fine art Garfunkel recorded the vocal at a slow tempo, with Paul Simon and James Taylor alternate equally lead and backing vocalists. This reached number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 15 on the Cash Box Summit 100.[7] The Garfunkel version too became a number-one US Developed Contemporary hitting for five weeks. Despite Paul Simon'south presence on the recording, the song was not credited as a Simon and Garfunkel single. Instead, labels for US copies of the Columbia Records single read, "Fine art Garfunkel with James Taylor & Paul Simon".
The song (as credited under the alternating championship, "(What A) Wonderful World") was included on later versions of Garfunkel'due south solo album, Watermark. It was added in identify of another song ("Fingerpaint") to capitalize on the single's success.
The Garfunkel version includes a terminal verse not present in the original Sam Cooke recording; yet, it is still credited to Adler, Alpert and Cooke. The lyrics to this new poetry are as follows:
Don't know much almost the middle ages, looked at the pictures then I turned the pages
Don't know nothin' 'bout no rise and fall, don't know nothin' 'tour nothin' at all
Girl it'southward you that I've been thinkin' of, and if I could merely win your honey, oh, girl
What a wonderful, wonderful earth this would exist
What a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful globe this would exist...
The last line repeats, and the song fades out at this point.
  • Don McLean recorded a version of the song for his 1986 anthology For the Memories.
  • Hong Kong singer Sandy Lam released a cover of the song in 1997.
  • In 1993, Japanese group Ulfuls released a cover of the vocal, which was later used in 1997 as ending song for the drama "Sore ga kotae da!"
  • Michael Bolton recorded a cover in 1999 for his second album of covers, Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2.

In popular culture [edit]

The song is used in the 1978 film Animal House in the well-known lunchroom scene where Bluto (John Belushi) gathers food in preparation for a food fight.[8] The song was also included in the 1983 film Incoherent. The original Sam Cooke version of the song comprised the title soundtrack of the 2005 film Hitch.

After a Greg Chapman cover of the song was featured prominently in the 1985 film Witness in a scene where Harrison Ford dances with Kelly McGillis, "Wonderful World" gained further exposure. Particularly in the United Kingdom, where a copy of the song, produced by Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge and with vocals sung by Barbadian Tony Jackson, a bankroll vocalizer for Paul Young, appeared in "Bathroom", a well-remembered, Roger Lyons-directed 1985 ad for Levi's 501 jeans.[ix] [10] [xi] As a result, the Sam Cooke version of the song became a hit in the U.k., reaching No.2 and selling a certified 250,000 copies. In a 2005 poll past the UK's Channel 4 the song was voted the 19th-greatest vocal e'er to characteristic in a commercial.[12]

The song is featured in the Mafia III'southward Official Soundtrack, published on October 7, 2016.[13]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Guralnick 2005, p. 279. sfn error: no target: CITEREFGuralnick2005 (assist)
  2. ^ Nelson George (April 26, 1986). "Rhythm & the Blues". Billboard. Vol. 98, no. 17. p. 25. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d Guralnick 2005, p. 324. sfn error: no target: CITEREFGuralnick2005 (help)
  4. ^ "Reviews of THIS WEEK'South SINGLES". Billboard. April 4, 1960. p. 57. Retrieved August one, 2014.
  5. ^ "PETER NOONE & HERMAN'S HERMITS - A LIFE IN MUSIC". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  6. ^ "CashBox Tape Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. May 22, 1965. p. 12. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Meridian 100 1978-03-18". Cashbox Magazine . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  8. ^ "Bluto'south a Zit - Animal Business firm (5/10) Movie Prune (1978) HD". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  9. ^ Bryan Appleyard (August 22, 1986). "Spectrum: I Sold It Through the Grapevine / Popular Music in Advertising". The Times.
  10. ^ Sam Ingleby (May 17, 2004). "Karl Jenkins: Fanfare for the Common Man". The Independent.
  11. ^ "Latest Releases". Ron Roker. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  12. ^ "Coke theme is meridian of the pops". The Manchester Evening News. July 1, 2005. Retrieved April thirty, 2013.
  13. ^ "Mafia 3'southward Splendid Soundtrack Revealed, Contains These 100-Plus Songs". GameSpot . Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  14. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  15. ^ a b c "Sam Cooke – Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved August one, 2014.
  16. ^ "Nederlandse Top twoscore – Sam Cooke" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  17. ^ "Official Singles Nautical chart Peak 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  18. ^ "The Irish gaelic Charts – Search Results – Wonderful Earth". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  19. ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. June 28, 1965. Retrieved February fifteen, 2019.
  20. ^ "Herman's Hermits Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved Baronial 1, 2014.
  21. ^ "Official Singles Chart Peak 100". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  22. ^ "Official Singles Chart Peak 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved Baronial one, 2014.
  23. ^ "Particular Display – RPM – Library and Athenaeum Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. April 1, 1978. Retrieved Feb eighteen, 2019.
  24. ^ "Item Brandish – RPM – Library and Athenaeum Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. April 1, 1978. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  25. ^ "Art Garfunkel Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved Baronial 1, 2014.
  26. ^ "British single certifications – Sam Cooke – Wonderful Globe". British Phonographic Manufacture.

References [edit]

  • Wolff, Daniel J., South. R. Crain, Clifton White, and G. David Tenenbaum (1995). You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke. William Morrow & Co. ISBN0-688-12403-8. {{cite volume}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Guralnick, Peter (2005). Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Trivial, Brown and Company. ISBN978-0316377942.

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